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Grifone is marching ahead with an ambitious retailing program. The...
Grifone is marching ahead with an ambitious retailing program. The Spanish outdoor and ski brand has opened a second store in Barcelona. The first one, which began operations last spring, is located across from Vèrtic, the well-known outdoor retailer. Prior to that, Grifone opened two other stores last year: a ...
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Sport Guide reports that Au Vieux Campeur, the leading French...
Sport Guide reports that Au Vieux Campeur, the leading French outdoor retail specialist, is to set up shop in at least one more French city this year, and possibly two. The French publication indicates that Au Vieux Campeur should have another store in Strasbourg in February, on a surface of ...
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Mammut is to open its first North American store in...
Mammut is to open its first North American store in New York City, in a partnership with Metro Rock Climbing Centers. While this company already has several climbing centers in Massachusetts and Vermont, the Swiss outdoor brand's store will be operated by Metro Rock at a new location in Brooklyn. ...
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Mountain Warehouse, one of the major outdoor retailers in the...
Mountain Warehouse, one of the major outdoor retailers in the U.K., is launching a new chain of stores, called Zakti, that will cover gym, yoga, running, cycling, snow sports, dance and swimming, according to Retail Week. Competing against Sweaty Betty, it will initially target women. Zakti is opening two stores ...
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The North Face has teamed up with IBM and Fluid...
The North Face has teamed up with IBM and Fluid to launch a new interactive online shopping system, using artificial intelligence (AI) to offer personalized product recommendations. The system works with Fluid's Expert Personal Shopper (XPS) software and IBM's Watson cognitive computer technology, so that online shoppers can use natural ...
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Decathlon opened its first store in Thailand earlier this month,...
Decathlon opened its first store in Thailand earlier this month, as part of a program to open five stores in Bangkok by the end of November. The Thai store openings come as Decathlon is preparing to move into several other countries in Southeast Asia. A spokesman said that Singapore, Malaysia ...
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Orage has opened its first flagship store in Montreal, Canada....
Orage has opened its first flagship store in Montreal, Canada. The new 1,000-square-foot space is called Le Chalet and is supposed to visually reflect modern mountain culture, with crisp whites, warm woods, soaring ceilings and natural light spilling in through large windows. The new retail space has been conceived as ...
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Hi-Tec has launched a brand-new website that uses Demandware software...
Hi-Tec has launched a brand-new website that uses Demandware software for e-commerce. It will be gradually rolled out globally in the next months. It will also help promote the brand with inspirational stories and blogs. The URL has been changed to www.hi-tec.co.uk
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Montura has opened new stores in Annecy, France and Verona,...
Montura has opened new stores in Annecy, France and Verona, Italy
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Field & Stream, the outdoor brand which is owned and...
Field & Stream, the outdoor brand which is owned and operated by the Dick's Sporting Goods retail chain, has launched in its first e-commerce site in the U.S. The new website adds to 19 store locations in the country.
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Lowa has opened an in-store shop in Summit Hut's new...
Lowa has opened an in-store shop in Summit Hut's new store in Tucson, Arizona, at 5251 E. Speedway. The collaboration is not new as Lowa has been working with Summit Hut for 19 years. Lowa's corner space features six panels of branded graphics and product display shelves. There is also ...
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Millet has opened its first free-standing store in Paris on...
Millet has opened its first free-standing store in Paris on the avenue des Ternes, near an Aigle store, taking the place of a former Lafuma shop. Millet will also set up between 10 and 12 concessions in the department stores of El Corte Inglés in Spain and ten in those ...
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The North Face plans to inaugurate its first store in...
The North Face plans to inaugurate its first store in Portugal on Oct. 17 in the presence of João (José Silva Abranches) Garcia, the first Portuguese mountaineer to have reached the summit of Mount Everest without supplementary oxygen in 1999. A year later, after reaching the top of Annapurna, he ...
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Sport-guide.com reports that Chullanka, the French outdoor and cycling retailer...
Sport-guide.com reports that Chullanka, the French outdoor and cycling retailer formerly controlled by Decathlon, is to open its fourth store in Bordeaux next year. The expansion comes after Chullanka was taken over in April by its managers along with two investment companies, Compagnie d'Anjou and Notus Technologies. Chullanka reached an ...
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A few weeks ago Dynafit and Wild Country opened a...
A few weeks ago Dynafit and Wild Country opened a joint store in Arco, the outdoor-centric town north of Italy's Lake Garda, in collaboration with a local retailer, Vertical Sport. Both brands belong to the Oberalp group.
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Odlo has opened a 90-square-meter store on the Grand Rue...
Odlo has opened a 90-square-meter store on the Grand Rue of Strasbourg, France. It is the 20th franchised store of the Swiss-based sports apparel brand.
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Migros, the large Swiss retail cooperative, intends to open eight...
Migros, the large Swiss retail cooperative, intends to open eight more Outdoor by SportXX stores within its SportXX general sports stores by the end of the year. The strategy of installing specialty outdoor shop-in-shops was tested at a shopping mall outside Zurich in March 2014, and then at two other ...
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As planned, working through franchisees, Vaude has opened its 15th...
As planned, working through franchisees, Vaude has opened its 15th German store in Tübingen and its first one in Belgium, in Liège. They measure 260 and 220 square meters, respectively.
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Icebug, the highly technical Swedish brand of outdoor shoes and...
Icebug, the highly technical Swedish brand of outdoor shoes and ice boots, has opened its own concept store in Gothenburg. Since it was established in the early 2000s, production has increased significantly every year, and growth has remained at an average of about 30 percent. Last year, Icebug had a ...
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Sherpa Adventure Gear has obtained exclusive retail space at Globetrotter...
Sherpa Adventure Gear has obtained exclusive retail space at Globetrotter in Munich, Berlin and Cologne. The Nepalese brand's sales manager for continental Europe, Wolfgang Jahn, said in a press release that consumer interest and demand have been most encouraging so far. Special displays for the partnership with Globetrotter were developed ...
